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By way of background, I recently purchased a 1942 dates MG42 lafette, used postwar by the Austrian army, complete with leather pads. The world of the MG42/34 lafette seems very murky and from my research it appears postwar mainly Norway, Austria and Yugoslavia carried on using these, often with varying degrees of refurbishment (with the Yugo ones being the most extensive and Austria the least). What are people’s thoughts, are the Austrian ones the best lafette’s to get? Many of the ones I see for sale seem to be ex-Yugo with cloth pads, even if the seller/owner claims they are authentic. From the history I have read, apart from battlefield (rusted) relics, it is impossible to find a clean, untouched, genuine Third Reich lafette for sale/ownership.

Thoughts/feedback on this would be greatly appreciated.

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